Improvement in revolving sample-holders



J. H. PR EATE R.

Revolving Samp I e-H older.

' Patented Juiy 6,1875

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrron.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVOLVING SAMPLE-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,366, dated July 6, 1875; application filed June 5, 1875. Y

To all whom it may concern: work, (shown at m,) that rotates the vertical Be it known that I, JAMES H. PREATER, of shaft 70, and to which a gearwvheel, 0, is at- Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State tached, that drives the gear-Wheelr of the of New York, have invented an Improved shaft 2', to turn the sampleholder k, as before Revolving Sample-Holder, of which the folset forth. lowing is a specification: The vertical shaft n is provided with arms This holder is adapted to samples of tea, 17, extending horizontally at or about the level coffee, sugar, spices, 850., and it is revolved of the gallery f, and these arms are more or so as to present the articles in succession, and less numerous, according to the size of the the holder iswithin a structure representing apparatus, and their outer ends are turned upa pagoda, with a gallery and figures that are ward to receive the images a or clips 12. .These moved from one side to the other, together images usually represent Chinese men carrywith clips for holding cards, pricelabels, &c., ing tea-chests or other articles, and as the apthe whole article being adapted to attract atparatus revolves these images pass out at the tention to the business conducted in the store doorway to at one side, move across the galwhere such sample-holder is, exhibited. lery, and enter the door a: at the other side. In the drawing, Figurel is a perspective The clips care made as spring-fingers for "iew of the entire structure, and Fig. 2 isa holding a card or price-slip or names, and

vertical section of the same." these may alternate with the figures.

Aba-seof suitable size, and preferably square, I claim as my inventionis provided, as at a, and the edges are sur- The revolving sampleholder 7c, sustained mounted by a railing, 1). Above the base upon a vertical shaft, 2', and placed in a rethere is an imitation building, resembling a cess in the structure representing a pagoda, pagoda. This structure has the sides d, roof in combination with the shaft it, provided with 6, gallery f, recess 9 behind the gallery, and arms t, having figures 20 attached thereto, recess h below the gallery, and in which latwhich are operated as set forth.

ter recess there is the conical sample-holder Signed by me this 2d day of J nne, A. D. k, made as a tray with divisions, so that in 1875.

the separate open boxes thus formed there may be introduced samples of tea, coffee, and other materials. This holder is is upon the Witnesses: vertical shaft 2', set in bearings in the base a, GEO. T. PINOKNEY, and revolved by a train of gearing or clock- 'UHAS. H. SMITH.

JAMES H. PREATER. 

